also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of … industry affiliation as an instrument for income. We demonstrate that industry affiliation is correlated with fixed individual …

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation … II, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in sharp contrast to developments in …

We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate … earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural … family income that integrate individual earnings, marriage (accounting for marital sorting), and earnings of a spouse (if …

Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …

This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban …-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … essential determinants of households' income level. These two factors exert heterogeneous effects at different percentiles of …